HISTORY OF RCI1946 – Mark Schwartz founded a motor repair business and secured a GE franchise for component parts. He was instrumental in bringing about a service innovation by exchanging fully working motors with customers who came in for repairs of their broken down motors. He then repaired them and replenished his motor inventory. 1962- GE’s General Purpose Control operation developed a new contactor for its air-conditioning and refrigeration business. Mark Schwartz attained the rights to exclusively distribute these contactors to the aftermarket through air-conditioning and refrigeration wholesalers. 1963 – RCI had demonstrated to GE that they could get GE’s products to market, with the parts moving from master distributors to wholesalers and ultimately service repair persons. RCI also worked in the direction of providing new innovations in terms of packing and product innovations as well. Mark Swartz worked with GE engineers and through this inputs in developing innovations, RCI continued to distribute these models exclusively. 1974 – Danny Swartz takes more responsibility and starts taking all the day-to-day business decisions. Some of the key values which RCI followed were

* Working by developing a relationship of trust and faith with suppliers. They did not have any formally drawn contracts. * Demonstrating to the suppliers how difficult distribution was and how RCI’s competencies could not be replicated. CURRENT SYSTEM

The current position of RCI was as follows:RCI distributed over 6000 electrical and related products earning revenue of $ 35.8 million and with operating profits of $ 3 million. RCI plays the role of a master distributor i.e. it sells to air-conditioning and refrigeration wholesalers who in turn sell to air conditioning and refrigeration contractors and repair houses. Their role is essentially restricted to the aftermarket channel for repair parts. RCI’S SALES PROCESS

RCI uses a network of independent manufacturer’s reps. who were 45 in numbers and from 14 companies. The average commission received by them was 3.5% and usually do not carry competing lines. RCI operated five warehouses which were electronically linked and operated on real-time inventory basis. RCI’s strength was in commercial refrigeration and air-conditioning business where price was secondary in some cases and reliability was more revered. Manufacturers of Electronic Components

Conflicts with GE
GE Appliance and control: Loss of exclusivity In 1976, RCI first lost its exclusivity for cold controls to GEM which started selling 10 times the volume of cold controls as compared to RCI.GE Appliance and control was not very confident with Mark Schwartz who had only 3 years of distribution business experience. GEM’s success led to gradual loss of exclusivity of PCI over other products. GE appliance and control used ‘Coercive power’ against RCI because the latter was not able to increase the sales volume as desired by the former. Listed below are the outcomes of GE Motors’s distribution channel study:- a. Master distributors were gradually becoming inefficient and ineffective in managing inventories, product knowledge and...

...United Breweries Group or UB Group is an Indian conglomerate company based in Bangalore, India. The company has annual sales of over US$4 billion and a market capitalization of approximately US$12 billion. Its core business includes beverages, aviation, electrical and chemicals. The company markets beer under the Kingfisher brand and has also launchedKingfisher Airlines, an airline service in India, with international flights operating recently. United Breweries is India's largest producer of beer with a market share of around 48% by volume.[2]
The company chairman is Vijay Mallya who had been a member of the Indian Parliament. United Breweries now has greater than a 40% share of the Indian brewing market with 79 distilleries and bottling units across the world. Recently UB financed a takeover of the spirits business of the rival Shaw-Wallace company giving it a majority share of India's spirits business. The group owns the Mendocino Brewing Company in the United States.
History
The UB Group was founded by a Scotsman, Thomas Leishman, in 1857. The Group took its initial lessons in manufacturing beer from South India based British breweries. At the age of 22, Vittal Mallya was elected as the company's first Indian director in 1947. After a year, he replaced R G N Price as the chairman of the company. Rangarajan took-over from R G N Price.
United Breweries made its initial impact by manufacturing bulk beer for the British troops, which was transported in huge barrels or...

...﻿GSL 2014-01 Case 1
The Shopping center management is property management industry, they involved to building shopping center and management of shopping center in Australia.
Porter’s 5 Forces:
Threat of substitutes: the online shopping is a threat of shopping center to reduce shopping in physical store. That will reduce the demand of shopping center’s space and rental income.
Threat of Entry: the barrier to entry the shopping center building and management industry is high, the capital requirement to entry the shopping center building and management industry is high and it becomes barrier of entry.
Threat of buyer is low. The retail store owners had low bargaining power to shopping center owners or management companies in rental.
Threat of supplier is low. Usually the shopping center owners also is the management companies owners.
The Competitive Rivalry is medium. The shopping center owners will reacting to rivalry’s new actions but usually stable rental increase rather than rental decrease.
PESTEL
Political:
- The political environment dose not against online shopping but not help the shopping center
Economical:
- Online shopping may find the same products or goods from overseas but in cheaper price than shopping center.
- Technology improvement made the shipment cost lower which may lower than rental cost of shopping centre.
- Greater product range means more choice to customer then more competitive than shopping centre.
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...You have been given the chance to spend a day with a famous person of your choosing. This person may be a character from a book, a movie, television or some other source. Why did you choose the person you did? Why is meeting with this person important to you?
Given the chance to spend a day frolicking with a famous person of my choosing it would have to be Josh Hutcherson. Spending a day with him would be like spending a day in heaven. Meeting a person like Josh Hutcherson is important to me because I value the character traits he portrays and I appreciate the skill he has in acting.
During our glorious and treasured day we would spend many hours marveling at the magical roles he has had the honor of perfecting and dissecting the beautiful characters he has made into characters we love and adore; ones that will never be forgotten. We would probably end up kissing, but only after he has charmed me to the point that it would be a crime on my part not to kiss him.
I admire Josh because he still seems to have the qualities of a gentleman that are so hard to come by in this day and age. Yet, he makes me swoon with his manly-ness. It is a fine line and Josh has the ability to walk it impeccably. In The Hunger Games, a movie Josh has recently starred in, I almost lost myself in his eyes, never to reawaken, when all of a sudden, his macho capabilities pulled me through the deep sea of those chocolate, dreamy brown eyes.
Josh Hutcherson is the ideal man. Anyone lucky...

...Home Re-examination paper 08 January 2013
Head of Module: Ali Rahigh-Aghsan
Course Secretary: Ingrid Alexandersson.
Submitting your re-exam – read the following points carefully
• Your exam paper should be submitted by 12.00 on Friday the 11th of January 2013.
• Leave a paper copy in the International Relations exam box on the fourth floor outside room 425 in the Global Political Studies (GPS) building (Gäddan 8) AND send an electronic copy of it to ali.rahigh-aghsan.mah@analys.urkund.se with your essay as an attachment. You must use your name as the start of the title of the exam document so that it is easy for me to identify you (e.g. JohnSmith_Realismexam.docx).
• The electronic file and the paper copy have to be exactly the same and both must be submitted on time. If you do not submit your essay on time or fail to submit it in both these ways then it will be marked an automatic fail.
• If you send your exam by regular post, it has to be postmarked no later than 12.00 Friday the 11th of January 2013.
• Write your name and identification number/personnummer (or alternatively your date of birth) on all pages! Fill in the information below and staple this sheet to the front of your answer.
• Exams that are submitted late or that lack your name and date of birth will not be marked.
• Results will be available no later than fifteen working days after the submission date.
Name: ____________________________________________________________...

...calls of the feast to stop any further suspicion.
‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say!’ – Act 5 Scene 1 Line 31
The supernatural link in this quotation is the fact that Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking and while doing so unveiling the secrets to the murder of Duncan. This is shocking to the audience as Macbeth had devised a plan that will get rid of all the suspicions and faults and here Lady Macbeth is unrevealing the secrets, while sleepwalking. Some in those times thought to be powered by the supernatural.
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble" - Act 4 Scene 1 line 10
It relates to the supernatural because in supernatural beliefs, spells are conjured and in this chant it is to summon the supernatural powers (their Master). During this scene they add ingredients (example eye of newt) that are believed to possess magical powers and when added together they would give magical results. When Macbeth drank the potion he received the prophecies.
"Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him."
Act 4, Scene 1, Line 95
I chose this quote to represent the three prophesies that the witches predicted:
“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough" - Act 4 Scene 1, Line 74
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of...

...﻿The ‘Kodak Eastman’ report
Executive Summary
The purpose of this report was to analyze the problems faced with the company called Kodak Eastman. Methods of analysis include SWOT, PESTLE and Porter’s Five Forces, which are frequently used to analyze the organization and the external environment. All details of these methods used in this case can be found in the appendices. In particular, there may be three factors mainly contribute to the fall of Kodak: new entry and existing competitors, carelessness of new technology and inconsistency in leadership.
Recommendation discussed include: pay attention on quality of product, maintain the stability of leadership, introduce new powerful product and provide lower-cost consumable.
Contents list
Executive Summary 1
1.0 Introduction 3
2.0 Analysis 3
2.1 Kodak Eastman: A Brief Introduction 3
2.2 Analysis of internal strengths and weaknesses by SWOT analysis 4
2.3 Analysis of external environment by using PESTLE method 7
2.4 Analysis of Competitive environment by using Porter’s five forces 9
3.0 Conclusions 9
4.0 Recommendations 10
Bibliography...